Grounded

“My pulse quickens. It is not a fair fight, but it quickens.”

She’s a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot. She’s pregnant. Her career in the sky is over. Now, she sits in an air-conditioned trailer in Las Vegas flying remote-controlled drones over the Middle East. She struggles through surreal 12-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night.

_Grounded_ is a gripping, compulsive new play that flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence. Gate Theatre’s extraordinary play targets our assumptions about war, family, and what it is to be a woman.

Written by George Brant
Directed by Christopher Haydon
Performed by Lucy Ellinson